Improvement in foot-rests



E. F. MERSICK.

FOOT-REST.

No. 183,695. Patented 0ct.24, 1876.

UNITED STATES PATENT CJEEICEa EDWIN F. MERSICK, OF NEW HAVEN,CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO NEW HAVEN FOLDING CHAIR COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN FOOT-RESTS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 183,695, dated October24, 1876 application tiled August 16, 1876.

To all whom it ma/y concern:

Be it'known that I, EDWIN F. MERSICK, of New Haven, in the county of NewHaven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new and usefulImprovement in Foot-Rests; and I hereby declare the following, whentaken in connection with the accompanying drawings and the letters ofreference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description ofthe same, and which said drawings constitute a part of thisspecification, and represent, in

Figure 1, a view of the foot-rest open for use 5 Fig. 2, a view of thesame folded.

This invention relates to lan improvement in the construction offoot-rests, and consists of so constructing the upper part of each legthat it shall be either a part of or the support of an attachmentintended to be used as a slipper-case or the receptacle of any otherarticles 5 and also the method of construction, whereby the coveringused over the top ot' the frame for the leg-support shall also form thejoint whereby the lid-cover of the slipper case or box is retained in aproper position in opening, the Weight of said lid keeping it closedunless overcome by the necessary power to lift it; allot' which may bemore fully understood by reference to the drawings, of whichv Theletters a represent the legs; b, the covering of the top; D, the box orslipper-case; d, the lid; c, the side; e, the hinge-fastening of lid.

I do not confine my invention to making the improved foot-rest withcross-legs-nsing them only as illustrating it because ot' theconvenience of doing so; nor to making the boxlid hinge of same materialas the covering of the top; but- What I desire to claim as my inventionis the following:

A foot-rest, consisting of the cross'legs a a, top b, and receptacles DD, the latter being formed by the side c, lid d, and upper extremitiesofthe legs a a, as and for the purpose set forth.

EDWIN F. MERSICK.

Witnesses:

J As. G. ENGLISH, JOHN M. WHITNEY.

